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Food security,nutrition and susainability/ Lawrence,Geoffrey [ed.]

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TextPublication details: London: Learthscan, 2009Description: 295ISBN: 9781844077755DDC classification: 338.19

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Front Cover; Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Foreword by Eric Holt-Giménez; 1. Introduction: Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability in a Globalized World: Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Tabatha Wallington; Part I: Global Food Security; 2. Breadbasket Contradictions: The Unstable Bounty of Industrial Agriculture in the United States and Canada: Tony Weis. 3. Security for Whom? Changing Discourses on Food in Europe in Times of a Global Food Crisis: Gianluca Brunori and Angela Guarino4. The Re-emergence of National Food Security on the United Kingdom's Strategic Policy Agenda: Sustainability Challenges and the Politics of Food Supply: David Barling, Tim Lang and Rosalind Sharpe; 5. Neoliberalism and Food Vulnerability: The Stakes for the South: Gabriela Pechlaner and Gerardo Otero; 6. Energy Security, Agriculture and Food: Jago Dodson, Neil Sipe, Roy Rickson and Sean Sloan; Part II: Food Systems, Diet and Nutrition. 7. Unequal Food Systems, Unhealthy Diets: Sharon Friel and Wieslaw Lichacz8. Explaining Patterns of Convenience Food Consumption: Lisa Schubert, Megan Jennaway and Helen Johnson; 9. Public Health and Moral Panic: Sociological Perspectives on the 'Epidemic of Obesity': Stewart Lockie and Susan Williams; 10. The Food Regulatory System -- Is It Protecting Public Health and Safety?: Mark Lawrence; 11. The 'Wellness' Phenomenon: Implications for Global Agri-food Systems: David Burch and Geoffrey Lawrence; 12. Supermarkets, Food Systems and Public Health: Facing the Challenges. Libby Hattersley and Jane DixonPart III: Towards a Sustainable Agri-food Future; 13. Bodies, Bugs and Dirt: Sustainability Re-imagined in Community Gardens: Kelly Donati, Susan Cleary and Lucinda Pike; 14. Biofuels: Finding a Sustainable Balance for Food and Energy: Sophia Murphy; 15. Examining the Mythologies of Organics: Moving beyond the Organic/Conventional Binary?: Hugh Campbell, Chris Rosin, Solis Norton, Peter Carey, Jayson Benge and Henrik Moller; 16. Nanotechnology and the Techno-corporate Agri-food Paradigm: Gyorgy Scrinis and Kristen Lyons. 17. Conclusion -- Big Choices about the Food System: Tim LangIndex.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	338.19 LAW/F (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P31431

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Front Cover; Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Foreword by Eric Holt-Giménez; 1. Introduction: Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability in a Globalized World: Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Tabatha Wallington; Part I: Global Food Security; 2. Breadbasket Contradictions: The Unstable Bounty of Industrial Agriculture in the United States and Canada: Tony Weis. 3. Security for Whom? Changing Discourses on Food in Europe in Times of a Global Food Crisis: Gianluca Brunori and Angela Guarino4. The Re-emergence of National Food Security on the United Kingdom's Strategic Policy Agenda: Sustainability Challenges and the Politics of Food Supply: David Barling, Tim Lang and Rosalind Sharpe; 5. Neoliberalism and Food Vulnerability: The Stakes for the South: Gabriela Pechlaner and Gerardo Otero; 6. Energy Security, Agriculture and Food: Jago Dodson, Neil Sipe, Roy Rickson and Sean Sloan; Part II: Food Systems, Diet and Nutrition. 7. Unequal Food Systems, Unhealthy Diets: Sharon Friel and Wieslaw Lichacz8. Explaining Patterns of Convenience Food Consumption: Lisa Schubert, Megan Jennaway and Helen Johnson; 9. Public Health and Moral Panic: Sociological Perspectives on the 'Epidemic of Obesity': Stewart Lockie and Susan Williams; 10. The Food Regulatory System --
Is It Protecting Public Health and Safety?: Mark Lawrence; 11. The 'Wellness' Phenomenon: Implications for Global Agri-food Systems: David Burch and Geoffrey Lawrence; 12. Supermarkets, Food Systems and Public Health: Facing the Challenges. Libby Hattersley and Jane DixonPart III: Towards a Sustainable Agri-food Future; 13. Bodies, Bugs and Dirt: Sustainability Re-imagined in Community Gardens: Kelly Donati, Susan Cleary and Lucinda Pike; 14. Biofuels: Finding a Sustainable Balance for Food and Energy: Sophia Murphy; 15. Examining the Mythologies of Organics: Moving beyond the Organic/Conventional Binary?: Hugh Campbell, Chris Rosin, Solis Norton, Peter Carey, Jayson Benge and Henrik Moller; 16. Nanotechnology and the Techno-corporate Agri-food Paradigm: Gyorgy Scrinis and Kristen Lyons. 17. Conclusion --
Big Choices about the Food System: Tim LangIndex.

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